[plug]A round of applause -- was- A bit of gross bash code

[navarre at plug.linux.org.au]

Applause Applause to Greg

What a wonderful explanation of the cryptic script.

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On 3/8/01, 2:14:44 PM, The Thought Assassin <assassin at live.wasp.net.au> 
wrote regarding Re: [plug] A bit of gross bash code:

> Just to get you started, I'll document how the above works.
> | grep "^[c|b|u]"
> The caret '^' means "beginning of line", forcing grep to only recognise
> the pattern if it the beginning of the line. [c|b|u] means "c or b or u"
> as you might expect. The quotes are to prevent bash from trying to parse
> the pipes or carets itself. In total, it filters the lines beginning with
> c, b or u and tosses the rest out.

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